A coast-to-coast consultation on health innovation

A coast-to-coast consultation on health innovation.

Klebsiella liver abscess: a coast-to-coast phenomenon.

!30 years of age are at higher risk of developing acute hepatitis A than are those aged 140 years (OR, 5.5; 95% CI, 1.2– 23.3). Patients who acquired HIV infection during sex had higher rates of natural hepatitis A immunity than did those who acquired HIV infection parenterally (61% vs. 38%; ). P p .13 These data support the recommendation of hepatitis A vaccination for patients with HIV infect...

Endogenous institutional innovation and agroindustrialization on the Peruvian coast

This paper presents an analysis of endogenous institutional innovations that have recently emerged in the agroindustrial zone of Chincha, on the coast of Peru. These innovations include: (1) contracts between agroindustrial firms and large farmers, introduced by the firms themselves to assure timely delivery and compliance with strict requirements implied by the emerging demanding quality and s...

Benefits in Cash or in Kind? A Community Consultation on Types of Benefits in Health Research on the Kenyan Coast

BACKGROUND Providing benefits and payments to participants in health research, either in cash or in kind, is a common but ethically controversial practice. While much literature has concentrated on appropriate levels of benefits or payments, this paper focuses on less well explored ethical issues around the nature of study benefits, drawing on views of community members living close to an inter...

Coast Redwood Responses to Pruning

A large-scale pruning study was established in the winter of 1999 to2000 at seven different sites on Green Diamond Resource Company forestlands in Humboldt County. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of pruning on increment, epicormic sprouting, stem taper, heartwood formation, and bear damage on these young trees. Pruning treatments varied pruning severity and were usually...